Picturing Proust

The election’s over, winter’s nearly upon us, and the economy is bearish. How better to weather the long, lonely nights ahead than with a rereading of Proust? No fun, you say? Here’s something to make it better: “Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to ‘In Search of Lost Time’,” in which more than two hundred paintings referenced in the book are assembled for your viewing pleasure. Because we’ve always wanted to linger on the paragraph (the single paragraph) in “Swann’s Way” that mentions, in this order, Corot’s “Chartres Cathedral,” a painting of fountains by Hubert Robert, Turner’s “Vesuvius in Eruption,” “Morghen’s print of Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ before its defacement,” and “the idea which I formed of Venice, from a drawing by Titian which is supposed to have the lagoon in the background.”

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